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The Shedd Family Papers: Documenting Dedication in Urmia

May 31, 2024
Memorial Service for Armenian Catholicos, 1907. [Pearl ID: 139161].

A woman floats in Lake Urmia. An American doctor poses next to a Kurdish leader. A group of Assyrian women gather in a home in Urmia.

This spring, descendants of the Shedd family prepared boxes of records and delivered them to the Presbyterian Historical Society archives. The records, which were...

Author: 
Kristen
Tags: 
Presbyterian Heritage, From the Archives, Mission History
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Our Work in the Archives: First Quarter 2024

May 8, 2024
Eunice Blanchard Poethig at the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Presbytery of Western New York Leader Training, circa 1990. Pearl ID: islandora:356168 [RG 545, Box 40, Folder 10]
 
The first quarter of 2024 flew by! Here’s an update on the impressive work the PHS archives staff have been doing so far this year.

Our 52 in-...

Author: 
Natalie
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Quarterly Reports
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African American Leaders: St. Paul Langley Epps

April 30, 2024

 

Portrait of St. Paul Langley Epps. [Pearl ID: islandora:358360]

Each month, the Presbyterian Historical Society is bearing witness to the lives of African American leaders throughout the history of the PC(USA). Click here to learn how PHS is collecting records of the Black Presbyterian experience through...

Author: 
Amalia
Tags: 
African American Leaders Series, African American History
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PHS Welcomes New Batch of More Light Records

April 25, 2024

On Tuesday, March 29, in the late afternoon, a very exciting shipment arrived at the PHS building on Lombard Street: 64 boxes of records from More Light Presbyterians (MLP).

Several of our staff assisted Records Archivist David Staniunas in getting the five-dozen boxes of archival materials into the building. At the request of More Light Presbyterians leadership and with the enthusiastic support of the records’ original donor, Jim Anderson, the records made their way to the Presbyterian Historical Society from Rutgers University Special Collections and University Archives....

Author: 
McKenna
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Archives, Collections, News and Events
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Al Ahli Hospital, Gaza

April 25, 2024

The only Christian hospital in Gaza, Al Ahli Hospital was organized in 1882 by the Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem. In the aftermath of the 1948 war and Egyptian occupation of Gaza, the hospital was operated by the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. The Baptists withdrew in 1982, a century after the hospital's founding, and an international coalition of funders stepped in, among them Church World Service, Dan-Church-Aid, and the...

Author: 
David S
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Palestine, Medical missions
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